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they used them to tell stories of their tribe, & of there gods

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it told a story of their life and each animal represented different parts of their life and may represent different things in life.

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Symbols where used to communicate before each tribe had a written language.

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The Native Americans have symbols because they did not know how to write or anything. They could only come up to drawing those symbols.

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to read and write

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